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1 online resource (292 pages) |
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Includes index. |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Fundamentals of GitOps -- Chapter 01: The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment -- How did we get here? -- What is a deployment process? -- What is a delivery process? -- What makes any practice continuous? -- Summary -- Chapter 02: Exploring Common Industry Delivery and Deployment Practices -- Common industry practices for deployment -- Common industry practices for delivery -- Common tools used for deployment and delivery -- Needs versus wants -- The automation test -- Summary -- Chapter 03: The "What" and "Why" of GitOps -- Why does a continuous process matter? -- What is GitOps? -- Declarative execution and declarative state -- To push or pull ? -- Summary -- Section 2: GitOps Types, Benefits, and Drawbacks -- Chapter 04: The Original GitOps -- Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes -- Original GitOps basics -- Kubernetes and operators -- Manifest explosion -- Benefits and drawbacks of originalist GitOps -- Common originalist GitOps tools -- Summary -- Chapter 05: Purist GitOps -- Continuous Deployment Everywhere -- Purist GitOps basics -- Servers, containers, and serverless deployment-as-code -- Declarative files overload -- Benefits and drawbacks of purist GitOps -- Common purist GitOps tools -- Summary -- Chapter 06: Verified GitOps -- Continuous Delivery Declaratively Defined -- Verified GitOps basics -- Test, governance, deploy, verify, and restore as code -- One file, many files, or somewhere in-between -- Benefits and drawbacks of verified GitOps -- Common verified GitOps tools -- Summary -- Chapter 07: Best Practices for Delivery, Deployment, and GitOps -- The purpose of best practices -- Continuous deployment considerations -- Continuous delivery considerations -- Where GitOps ties in -- Summary. |
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Section 3: Hands-On Practical GitOps -- Chapter 08: Practicing the Basics -- Declarative Language File Building -- Nesting and flat files -- XML file building -- JSON file building -- YAML file building -- Templatization types -- Summary -- Chapter 09: Originalist Gitops in Practice -- Continuous Deployment -- Setting up minikube -- Homebrew -- VirtualBox -- kubectl -- minikube -- Setting up VSCode -- Downloading and installing -- Adding extensions -- Setting up Kubernetes and Helm -- Installing Helm -- Creating a Helm chart -- Removing unwanted files -- Adding required files -- Adding required information -- Exploring the files -- Testing the deployment -- Local continuous deployment with GitOps file building -- Starting minikube -- Run on Save configuration -- GitHub -- GitHub access -- Originalist GitOps with Argo CD -- Starting minikube -- Disabling the Run on Save extension -- Installing Argo CD -- Installing Argo CD CLI -- Argo CD API server access -- Logging in via the CLI -- Registering the cluster -- Creating an application from a Git repository -- Pushing a change -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Verified GitOps Setup: Continuous Delivery GitOps with Harness -- Mapping out the process -- One manifest or many -- Simple LAMP stack deployment -- Advanced setup for Tomcat with Memcached and failover -- A manifest for integrations -- A manifest for configuration -- A manifest for execution -- A manifest for delivery -- Verified GitOps with Harness -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Pitfall Examples -- Experiencing Issues with GitOps -- Building and testing Kubernetes manifests -- Failure strategies -- Governance and approvals -- Proprietary manifest building -- Summary -- Chapter 12: What's Next? -- Delivery versus deployment -- GitOps -- what and why -- Continuous deployment GitOps -- originalist and purist -- Continuous delivery GitOps -- verified. |
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Best practices first, then GitOps -- Summary -- Why subscribe? -- About Packt -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index. |
| Summary |
Learn how to best use GitOps to automate manual tasks in the continuous delivery and deployment process Key Features Explore the different GitOps schools of thought and understand which GitOps practices will work for you and your team Get up and running with the fundamentals of GitOps implementation Understand how to effectively automate the deployment and delivery process Book DescriptionThe world of software delivery and deployment has come a long way in the last few decades. From waterfall methods to Agile practices, every company that develops its own software has to overcome various challenges in delivery and deployment to meet customer and market demands. This book will guide you through common industry practices for software delivery and deployment. Throughout the book, you'll follow the journey of a DevOps team that matures their software release process from quarterly deployments to continuous delivery using GitOps. With the help of hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you'll build your knowledge of GitOps basics, different types of GitOps practices, and how to decide which GitOps practice is the best for your company. As you progress, you'll cover everything from building declarative language files to the pitfalls in performing continuous deployment with GitOps. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with the fundamentals of delivery and deployment, the different schools of GitOps, and how to best leverage GitOps in your teams. What you will learn Explore a variety of common industry tools for GitOps Understand continuous deployment, continuous delivery, and why they are important Gain a practical understanding of using GitOps as an engineering organization Become well-versed with using GitOps and Kubernetes together Leverage Git events for automated deployments Implement GitOps best practices and find out how to avoid GitOps pitfalls Who this book is for This book is for engineering leaders and anyone working in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, build/release, or cloud automation teams. A basic understanding of the DevOps software development life cycle (SDLC) will help you to get the most out of this book. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Git (Computer file)
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Git (Computer file) |
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Reliability (Engineering)
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Reliability (Engineering) |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Feuling, Bryan. Repeatability, reliability, and scalability through GitOps. Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, ©2021 |
| ISBN |
9781801074315 (electronic bk.) |
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1801074313 (electronic bk.) |
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9781801077798 |
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